Sebastian Siemiatkowski startar försvarsbolaget Defensor, som med en grundplåt på nästan en halv miljard kronor ska ge sig ut på en förvärvsresa. Han är inte orolig över att engagemanget i den omdiskuterade sektorn ska spilla över negativt på Klarna. ”Jag har definitivt omvärderat min egen syn”, säger han till Di TV.
Flat Capital investerar 458 miljoner kronor i defense tech-bolaget Defensor. Fokus kommer ligga på den nordiska försvarsindustrin och direkt görs två förvärv av två svenska spelare. “Europa står inför den största upprustningen i modern tid”, säger Sebastian Siemiatkowski. Aktien rusar på börsen.
Sebastian Siemiatkowski går all in på defense tech. Bakgrunden till satsningen Defensor handlar bland annat om hans egen familjehistoria och att han vill ge den svenska försvarssektorn bättre förutsättningar i ett tuffare klimat.
Flat Capital rusar 15 procent på börsen efter att man investerat drygt 450 miljoner i Defensor. Förvärvet innebär en helt ny inriktning för Sebastian Siemiatkowskis investmentbolag. Initiativet möts av förvåning i sociala medier – men hyllas av börsprofilen John Skogman. – Det här är det bästa som kunde hända, säger han.
Investeringsbolaget Flat Capital investerar 458 miljoner kronor i nybildade Defensor, en försvarskoncern som samtidigt köper 70 procent av de två svenska försvarsbolagen Armatech i Kungsbacka och Safe4u. I styrelsen sitter bland annat Sveriges tidigare överbefälhavare Sverker Göranson.
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AI-ljudbolaget Eleven Labs lanserar en ny AI-modell som låter användare skapa musik, som de säger får användas kommersiellt. Bakgrunden är ett samarbete med svenskstartade Kobalt och Merlin Network.
Investmentbolaget Flat, med Klarna-grundaren Sebastian Siemiatkowski och vdn Hanna Andreen i spetsen, får nu rejält ökat handlingsutrymme.
DeepL’s more than 200,000 customers include governments and half of the Fortune 500. The German startup says its AI-powered translation tools are more accurate and better able to capture specific industry context (and terminology) than competitors.
New York, 18th June* — Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, is entering the mobile market with an unlimited phone plan, paired with Klarna’s signature seamless experience directly in the Klarna app. Klarna's unlimited mobile plan launches first in the U.S. in the coming weeks, with the UK, Germany, and more to follow soon.
Elon Musk’s startup xAI is trying to raise a $4.3 billion equity investment, according to a report from Bloomberg. This equity funding would be in addition to the $5 billion that Musk is allegedly trying to raise in debt funding for the combined entity of X and xAI.
The Defense Department has awarded a one-year $200 million contract to OpenAI for the use of its artificial intelligence models.
OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, according to a company spokesperson
Hours after Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced on Wednesday that OpenAI was buying Ive’s company, io, in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski posted a surprising message on X.
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. *April 23, 2025 — SAN JOSE, Calif. and NEW YORK —* eBay, a global commerce leader that connects millions of buyers and sellers around the world, today announced the expansion of its global strategic partnership with Klarna, the AI-powered payments and commerce network, to the U.S. market. eBay is rolling out Klarna’s flexible payments options to millions of eBay’s U.S. shoppers. The expanded partnership reflects eBay’s continued investment in bringing more choice, flexibility, and control to buyers while enhancing affordability across key categories.
Today, we’re sharing that Figma has confidentially submitted an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, giving us the option to go public, pending SEC review.
Today we’re announcing new funding—$40 billion at a $300 billion post-money valuation, which enables us to push the frontiers of AI research even further, scale our compute infrastructure, and deliver increasingly powerful tools for the 500 million people who use ChatGPT every week.
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has acquired his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock deal, he announced in a post on X Friday. “xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction,” Musk said. “The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt).”
: *London, United Kingdom,* March 14, 2025 — Klarna Group plc (“Klarna”), the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, announced today that it has publicly filed a registration statement on Form F-1 (the “Registration Statement”) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to a proposed initial public offering of its ordinary shares. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. Klarna has applied to list its ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “KLAR.”
Di:s Robert Andersson om Flat Capital.
New York, 11 of February, 2025* – Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has signed an agreement with J.P. Morgan Payment that will, for the first time, make Klarna’s Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment options available to businesses that rely on J.P. Morgan Payments for payment processing.
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Today we introduced a research preview, an agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you. Powering Operator is Computer-Using Agent (CUA), a model that combines GPT-4o's vision capabilities with advanced reasoning through reinforcement learning. CUA is trained to interact with graphical user interfaces (GUIs)—the buttons, menus, and text fields people see on a screen—just as humans do. This gives it the flexibility to perform digital tasks without using OS- or web-specific APIs.
Jarek Kutylowski, Founder & CEO of DeepL, shares insights on their AI-powered voice translator, and how translation technology is helping businesses scale on #NYSEFloorTalk with Judy Shaw.